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Growing Up in Marblehead

Author : Dan Dixey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999107430
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in Marblehead written by Dan Dixey and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a four hundred year timeline of events of Marblehead, Massachusetts. There are stories based on the experiences and observations of one family continuously living in Town. William Dixey was a servant of Isaac Johnson and arrived in Naumkeag in 1629. The Dixey family settled in Marblehead and has lived in this coastal town for almost four hundred years. The author is also a descendant of Isaac Allerton, a Mayflower passenger that used Marblehead as a base for his fishing fleet. Along with the timeline and stories, are four hundred and twenty photographs and maps from the author's private collection. Thirty pages of genealogy in the back of the book show connections to most of Marblehead's old families. Hundreds of names are listed, with some families going back to the late 1500s. Old books, documents, town records, probate records, wills, old newspapers, interviews with Marbleheaders, family letters and other family documents were used in writing the book.

Forever Marbleheaders

Author : Maureen Graves Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087872179
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Forever Marbleheaders written by Maureen Graves Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marblehead's First Harbor

Author : Hugh Peabody Bishop
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625842260
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Marblehead's First Harbor written by Hugh Peabody Bishop and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true beauty and fury of the Atlantic Ocean are known only by the rugged individuals who have made their living from the sea. In the seventy-five years from the American Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century, Marblehead, Massachusetts, experienced a golden age of fishing. For the next fifty years, the industry struggled, but from 1900 until the end of the twentieth century, one small anchorage made itself proud. From boat building to sail design, First Harbor produced creative men whose innovations helped shape marine history. Join Hugh Peabody Bishop and Brenda Bishop Booma as they reveal this story through the eyes of a Marblehead fisherman, drawn uncontrollably by his love for the sea.

Azor of Marblehead

Author : David E. Crowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781631104459
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Azor of Marblehead written by David E. Crowley and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young mother, Maude Crowley, moves to a seacoast town, Marblehead, Mass., and strives to write a children's book based on her 6-year-old son David and his playmates. Unlike other kids, her fictional child Azor can speak with animals who tell him important things like the location of lost objects and people. The young woman writes the book in three weeks. With the help of her brother-in-law Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker, she finds an agent and a publisher, Oxford University Press. "Azor" is published in 1948 followed by four other children's stories. Reviewers love the books which go on to sell 51,000 copies and earn almost $9000 by 1960 ($85,000 in today's money).Her devotion to her son is total. How does she find time to write these books along with three others that aren't published and several short stories? And what is her son's life like knowing that he has a fictional counterpart? David, the real son, can't speak with animals but has a great childhood anyway. All is not perfect for him, though. He has to live in a world where the kids around him are real, and where his mother, despite her extraordinary talent and outsized persona, has all the flaws of a real adult.Fifty-two years after her first book is published, Maude Crowley dies in August 2000, and David inherits a mass of manuscripts, correspondence, and business papers. Now in full detail, you can read how Maude Crowley built her writing career, how she succeeded in the competitive world of children's publishing, and how she maintained her home and family. There are excerpts from the five children's books, notes from Maude that illuminate her forceful presence, and her son's reactions it all-her writing, her relationships, and her struggles with problems real and imagined.

Pastel Innovations

Author : Dawn Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440350469
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Pastel Innovations written by Dawn Emerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastel Painting Techniques That Are Revolutionary, Fun and Easy! Designed for beginners considering using pastel for the first time, for experienced artists who may feel uninspired, and for anyone in between, the skills you will gain with Pastel Innovations, will help you build confidence and open your world so you can paint what CAN BE, not just what you THINK is. Explore the unique joys of pastel painting with: • An exploration of the basics: You'll expand your artist's vocabulary learning to use the elements and fundamentals of design to create beautiful, balanced paintings. • 20 simple exercises build off each other and help you grow as an artist, little by little, building confidence. • 40+ innovative pastel painting techniques: Feel inspired as you learn new approaches to using pastel to build up and reveal layers, incorporate monotypes as underpaintings, create texture that cannot be duplicated by drawing or painting, and more. • Thoughtful self critique: Questions, approaches and checklists that will result in better art, while at the same time making you a better artist. Leave your expectations behind and engage in the process of pastel painting with a newfound freedom to play and explore!

Turbulent Years in Chelsea

Author : Arnie Jarmak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669279
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Turbulent Years in Chelsea written by Arnie Jarmak and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just one short mile but a world away from affluent, neighboring Boston, Chelsea's historically Irish and eastern European Jewish populations had always made the city unique. A more recent wave of immigration from Puerto Rico and Central America brought about more diversity during a period of economic decline. Ethnically charged political competition and unprecedented levels of corruption eventually brought the small city to the brink of collapse. This gripping narrative focuses on Chelsea's most turbulent years, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Join photographer Arnie Jarmak and writer Joshua Resnek as they unveil the hardscrabble city they encountered and lived in during their early careers.

Glad Farm

Author : Catherine Marenghi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544629735
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Glad Farm written by Catherine Marenghi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliciting comparisons to "The Glass Castle" and the works of Elena Ferrante, "Glad Farm" is a stunning new memoir that readers can't put down. Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Catherine Marenghi begins her life in poverty and isolation, but is propelled forward by the love and support of her family. A decade after leaving home at the age of seventeen, she is a successful journalist with the means to buy her family their first decent house. But the past will not be put to rest so easily. Catherine unravels a web of long-buried family secrets, and a terrible betrayal that robbed her family of the home that was rightfully theirs. And she finally learns the story her parents never shared: the gladiolus farm that was once their dream. At once lyrical and raw, unflinching in its detail, "Glad Farm" is an iconic American story of renewal and reinvention, and the mythic power of a house to define our destiny.

Citizen Somerville

Author : Bobby Martini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982991503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Somerville written by Bobby Martini and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, a bloody civil war broke out between the two powerful Irish Mob families in the Somerville Massachusetts neighborhood known as Winter Hill. More than 60 men were murdered. The events offer a true picture of an era in Boston's pre-Whitey Bulger history when the streets were protected by a close-knit group of Irish-Italian "businessmen."

All Souls

Author : Michael Patrick MacDonald
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807020532
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching our backs for threats, watching for all the enemies we could never really define." But the threats-poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world-were real. MacDonald lost four of his siblings to violence and poverty. All Souls is heart-breaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world." We meet Ma, Michael's mini-skirted, accordian-playing, usually single mother who cares for her children—there are eventually eleven—through a combination of high spirits and inspired "getting over." And there are Michael's older siblings—Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero—whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. But too soon Southie becomes a place controlled by resident gangster Whitey Bulger, later revealed to be an FBI informant even as he ran the drug culture that Southie supposedly never had. It was a world primed for the escalation of class violence-and then, with deadly and sickening inevitability, of racial violence that swirled around forced busing. MacDonald, eight years old when the riots hit, gives an explosive account of the asphalt warfare. He tells of feeling "part of it all, part of something bigger than I'd ever imagined, part of something that was on the national news every night." Within a few years-a sequence laid out in All Souls with mesmerizing urgency-the neighborhood's collapse is echoed by the MacDonald family's tragedies. All but destroyed by grief and by the Southie code that doesn't allow him to feel it, MacDonald gets out. His work as a peace activist, first in the all-Black neighborhoods of nearby Roxbury, then back to the Southie he can't help but love, is the powerfully redemptive close to a story that will leave readers utterly shaken and changed.

The Weight of Water

Author : Sarah Crossan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619630478
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Weight of Water written by Sarah Crossan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic, gifty offering that combines first love, friendship, and persistent courage in this lyrical immigration story told in verse. Carrying just a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother are immigrating to England from Poland. Kasienka isn't the happiest girl in the world. At home, her mother is suffering from a broken heart as she searches for Kasienka's father. And at school, Kasienka is having trouble being the new girl and making friends. The only time she feels comforted is when she's swimming at the pool. But she can't quite shake the feeling that she's sinking. Until a new boy swims into her life, and she learns that there might be more than one way to stay afloat. The Weight of Water is a coming-of-age story that deftly handles issues of immigration, alienation, and first love. Moving and poetically rendered, this novel-in-verse is the story of a young girl whose determination to find out who she is prevails.

What We Will Become

Author : Mimi Lemay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0544965833
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book What We Will Become written by Mimi Lemay and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her. From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand and come to terms with the fact that her child may be transgender, she experienced a sense of déjà vu--the journey to uncover the source of her child's inner turmoil unearthed ghosts from Mimi's past and her own struggle to live an authentic life. Mimi was raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, every aspect of her life dictated by ancient rules and her role as a woman largely preordained from cradle to grave. As a young woman, Mimi wrestled with the demands of her faith and eventually made the painful decision to leave her religious community and the strict gender roles it upheld. Having risen from the ashes of her former life, Mimi was prepared to help her son forge a new one -- at a time when there was little consensus on how best to help young transgender children. Dual narratives of faith and motherhood weave together to form a heartfelt portrait of an unforgettable family. Brimming with love and courage, What We Will Become is a powerful testament to how painful events from the past can be redeemed to give us hope for the future.

Off the Bench

Author : Fred Bowen
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1682634108
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Off the Bench written by Fred Bowen and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris wants to be a star scorer like his brother—so why does his coach keep him waiting on the bench? Chris comes from a sports-loving family. His brother is the star scorer on the high school team, and is being recruited by Division 3 colleges. Chris longs to earn the same adulation, and he’s a good scorer for his junior high team. But why won’t his coach start him? He’s better on defense than his rival, Carlos, and nearly as good a shooter. Soon Chris becomes obsessed with earning a place in his team’s starting lineup. He does everything he can think of—including being an invaluable player every time he comes in. But nothing seems to get Coach’s attention. Even after he learns the history of the valuable “6th man,” Chris can’t seem to let it go. How will he ever be a big scoring star? For every kid who hates to read but loves basketball, comes a suspenseful novel with plenty of play-by-play sports action.

Out of Bounds

Author : Fred Bowen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504044991
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Out of Bounds written by Fred Bowen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s “plenty of soccer action” in this story of a middle schooler who has to figure out how to balance good sportsmanship with the goal of winning (Booklist). Eighth-grader Nate Osborne is a forward on his U-14 soccer team, the Strikers. He and the rest of his teammates are very competitive—especially when it comes to their rivals, the Monarchs. They want the Monarchs to lose so badly that they’ll even root against them when they play other teams. Then, during a game between the Strikers and the Monarchs, a boy on the opposing team gets injured, and Nate must decide between going for a goal or kicking the ball out of bounds as an act of sportsmanship. His aunt, who’s also a soccer player, has taught him the importance of fair play, but when Nate stops the clock and sacrifices his chance to win the game, his teammates just don’t understand. From the author of the Sports Stories and All-Star Sport Stories series, as well as the kids’ sports column “The Score” for the Washington Post’s KidsPost section, Out of Bounds is an entertaining and thoughtful tale about young athletes striving to become not only great players, but also great people.

Death of an Empire

Author : Robert Booth
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429990260
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Death of an Empire written by Robert Booth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SALEM has long been notorious for the witch trials of 1692. But a hundred years later it was renowned for very different pursuits: vast wealth and worldwide trade. Now Death of an Empire tells the story of Salem's glory days in the age of sailing, and the murder that hastened its descent. When America first became a nation, Salem was the richest city in the republic, led by a visionary merchant who still ranks as one of the wealthiest men in history. For decades, Salem connected America with the wider world, through a large fleet of tall ships and a pragmatic, egalitarian brand of commerce taht remains a model of enlightened international relations. But America's emerging big cities and westward expansion began to erode Salem's national political importance just as its seafaring economy faltered in the face of tariffs and global depression. With Salem's standing as a world capital imperiled, two men, equally favored by fortune, struggled for its future: one, a progressive merchant-politician, tried to build new institutions and businesses, while the other, a reclusive crime lord, offered a demimonde of forbidden pleasures. The scandalous trial that followed signaled Salem's fall from national prominence, a fall that echoed around the world in the loss of friendly trade and in bloody reprisals against native peoples by the U.S. Navy. Death of an Empire is an exciting tale of a remarkably rich era, shedding light on a little-known but fascinating period of Ameriacn history in which characters such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster interact with the ambitious merchants and fearless mariners who made Salem famous around the world.

Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die

Author : Chris Santella
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 161312063X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die written by Chris Santella and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Championship racers and professional adventurers disclose their favorite destinations in an inspiring volume of stories, travel tips, and photos. Featuring some of the best-known men and women in the sport—Tom Whidden and Gary Jobson (members of the winning 1987 America’s Cup crew), Jeff Johnstone (of J-Boats), award-winning sailing writer Lin Pardey, and many others—this is a unique full-color celebration for sailors to relive their greatest memories or plan their next big adventure. The amazingly diverse places they’ve selected include: Australia: Fremantle and Sydney Bermuda: St. George’s Harbor Brazil: Bay of Ilha Grande California: Channel Islands and San Francisco Bay Chile: Cape Horn Italy: Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Maine: Boothbay Harbor, Penobscot Bay, Southwest Harbor Florida: Biscayne Bay and Key West Scotland: Firth of Clyde South Africa: Cape Town…and dozens more For each place, the sailor recommending the venue spins an entertaining yarn about their experience there, and each description is accompanied by a “make you want to go there now” photograph. From the relative indolence of cruising the Dodecanese or the British Virgin Islands, to the white-knuckle adventure of rounding Cape Horn, to the thrill of partaking in the regatta off Newport, Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die captures the rich and varied world of recreational sailing—and may just inspire you to set sail on some new adventures of your own.

Privilege and Prejudice

Author : Karen Weekes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527561194
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Privilege and Prejudice written by Karen Weekes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Privilege and Prejudice: Twenty Years with the Invisible Knapsack” explores various areas of contemporary American culture where sexism and racism still leave an indelible print. In 1988, Peggy McIntosh published her groundbreaking essay “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” an examination of white privilege and its role in perpetuating racism. Twenty years later, these seven essays reveal problems that persist even in systems that are ostensibly trying to address problems of inequality. Beginning with a foreword by McIntosh on our society’s resistance to confronting privilege, this text then delves into a variety of fields. In the first section, on higher education, Simona Hill, Lucien Winegar, Juanita Johnson-Bailey and Ronald Cervero contribute two essays examining racism in the academy, while Donna Axel explores the stigma in law school alternative application processes. The next section interrogates privilege and its effects on females’ choices, with Kyla Bender-Baird questioning global contraception policies and Mary Carney giving a historical overview to contextualize persistent gender inequities in computer technology. Media studies and stereotypes are considered in the final section, in which Janice Stapley analyzes children’s birthday cards for gender bias and Ellen Miller critiques male dance films. This text would be useful for social science and humanities scholars of all types with its explorations of the continuing ramifications of race, gender, class, and their intersections.

Growing up Waukegan

Author : Fred Scheske
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462018629
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Growing up Waukegan written by Fred Scheske and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational true story about the life experiences of a young boy growing up in Waukegan, Illinois.